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Welcome to these Michelangelo Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Sayings. Please enjoy these Quotes about Michelangelo and Love.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are the Michelangelo of your own life.
The David that you are sculpting is you.
And you do it with your thoughts.
- Joe Vitale
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Show me a man who knows his own heart
and to him I shall belong.
- Jewel
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
I, with a deeper instinct,
choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me,
who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,
who does not believe me naive or innocent,
who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Anais Nin
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there.
Assemble yourself with wild things,
with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam.
Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes
and it will shine - Calling me.
For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair.
A man who will Kiss the Flame.
- Jewel
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation,
man would still be a beast in the forest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
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